Nyctibatrachidae

Nyctibatrachidae is a small family of frogs found in the Western Ghats of India and in Sri Lanka. Their common name is robust frogs. Recognition of Nyctibatrachidae as a family is fairly recent. These frogs were previously placed in the broadly defined family Ranidae, which was more recently divided into three subfamilies: Lankanectinae, Nyctibatrachinae, and Astrobatrachinae.

Genera

The family contains three genera in their own subfamilies:

Subfamily Astrobatrachinae
*Astrobatrachus Vijayakumar et al., 2019
Subfamily Lankanectinae
*Lankanectes Dubois and Ohler, 2001
Subfamily Nyctibatrachinae
*Nyctibatrachus Boulenger, 1882

Description

Nyctibatrachus are robust-bodied frogs that range in size from small to relatively large. They occur in near streams in hilly evergreen forests. Lankanectes is an aquatic species of slow-moving rivers in marshy areas.